Named Entity Results, John W. Ellis

The late Gov. Ellis. For the information of the North Carolina volunteers in Virginia, we copy the General Orders issued on the receipt of the intelligence of Gov. Ellis's death: Department of Military Affairs, Raleigh, July 9, 1861. His Excellency, John W. Ellis, Governor of North Carolina, departed this lifeGov. Ellis's death: Department of Military Affairs, Raleigh, July 9, 1861. His Excellency, John W. Ellis, Governor of North Carolina, departed this life on the 7th day of July, at the Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe county, Virginia. The Hon. Henry T. Clarke, Speaker of the Senate, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution, has assumed the administration of the Government. In announcing this and event to the North Carolina forces, he directs that for the purpose of paying the John W. Ellis, Governor of North Carolina, departed this life on the 7th day of July, at the Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe county, Virginia. The Hon. Henry T. Clarke, Speaker of the Senate, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution, has assumed the administration of the Government. In announcing this and event to the North Carolina forces, he directs that for the purpose of paying the just and proper tribute of respect to the distinguished deceased, that 1. At every post and encampment of the army on the day after receipt of these orders, half-hour guns will be fired from sunrise to sunset, and the colors be displayed at half-mast. II. All officers of the N. C. forces, wherever on service, shall wea

ht be desired would be cheerfully furnished by our vessels. Mr. Myers is an open and avowed Secessionist, and the refusal of his request was a wise precaution. A gentleman representing himself to have been a Captain in the recent German legion raised by the British Government, was sent in under a flag of truce to Newport News, last night. He was permitted to go North to-day. A Mrs. Gwyn, who travels considerably on this route, was permitted to go to Norfolk yesterday, as were also a Mrs. Ellis and her daughter, from North Carolina. The General is inclined to be a good deal more rigid than he has been hitherto in regard to these matters. I wrote you on Tuesday of the capture of some letters, found at a picket guard of the rebels which was surprised, at Little Bethel, by one of our scouting parties, the day before. I learn that among them was one from a person who had been clerk at headquarters, dated June 18,in which he described the expedition to Big Bethel — saying that